Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-18
OLD JOHN BROWN.
HON. ELI THAYER DOES SOME MORE
PLAIN TALKING.
How Anarchists are Made--The Abolition
list Disunionits-A scathing Denun-
oiatior-strong Laanguase.


Sun Abraham Lincoln, in his Cooper
Institute speech, said, with his charac-
teristic "charity for all -:
John Browns effort was peculiar.
It was not a slave instruction. IL
was an attempt by white men to get up
revolt among slaves, in which the
slaves refused to participate. In fact, it
was so absurd that the slaves in all their
ignorance saw plainly enough il could
not succeed. That affair, in its philoso-
ply, corresponds with the many attempts
related in history at the assassination OF
kings and emperors. an enthusiast
broods over the oppression Of people
till he fancies himself commissioned by
Heaven TO liberate them. He ventures
the attempt, which ends in little else
| than his own execution. Orsini's attempt
on Louis Napoleon and John Browns
attempt at Harper's Ferry we're, in their
philosophy, the same. The eagerness
10 cast blame on old England in the one
case and on New England in the other
does not disprove the sameness of the
two things"
1t is charity to rank Brown asa mono
maniac in the same list with Orsini,
! Guiteau, Booth, and Freeman. But his
admirers do not allow this, for it would
ruin him as ga saint and martyr"
They contend not only that he was sane,
but that he was great moral hero. II
we admit his sanity, we must then regard
him either as felon or a fiend. After he
had proved himself robber, murderer,
and traitor, and while almost everybody
was denouncing him as such, the Garri-
son Disunionist, under whose tuition he
had matured, Immediately began his
apotheosis. The files of the LfberdtOr and
the reported eulogies of Wendell Phil
lips. delivered wherever he could get a
hearing, are abundant proof of this fact.
| Themselves monomaniacs, they were de-
| lighted to discover q hero so well adapted
TO their characters and tastes. 1t had
been their work for quarter OF a CEN
fury to denounce the Government OF
their country, to call the Constitution
ga league with death and a covenant
with hell" and on public occasions to
make bonfres of that sacred instrument.
They said constantly that "there was no
issue of any importance except the dis
solution of the Union" In their con-
vention in New York city in May, 1854,
the very month in which the Missouri
compromise was repealed, they said
1.-THE Nebraska bill and the fugitive
slave law are matters of no import
TO Abolitionists. We strike at the
root of the matter" They claimed
to appeal to the moral sense of
the country, but in fact they APP
pealed neither to its moral sense nor to
its common sense. Their cry was for
disunion and for nothing else. They
asked the people to escape the measles
by committing suicide. They asked us
to burn our houses to get free from cock
reaches. They never seemed to have
one impulse of patriotism or one glimmer
of craftsmanship. They were simply
malignant pustules on the body polite
the proof and the effect of the disease
within, without any curing power or ten
dency. These are the men responsible
for the terrible growth of Anarchy in this
country. They made a deity OF the
prince OF Anarchists. a colossus in crime,
compared with whom the men recently
executed at Chicago were only piglnies.
1t is no wonder, then, that the
Anarchists Of to-day acknowledge their
rightful king, and sing at their nocturnal
conventions John Brown songs. This Is
tho most appropriate commentary We
have yet had upon the character of Gar
rison and Phillips, "martyr and saint.
Their eulogies found echoes in feeble
pulpit utterances and occasionally in
public lectures. In this way the deadly
| virus of Anarchy infected ana poisoned
public sentiment.
But what did John Brown do ? In
Kansas he dragged from their beds at
midnight three men and two boys and
hacked them in pieces with two-edged
cleayers in such way that the massacre
was reported to be the work of wild
Indians. If any butcher in New York
CITY should hack and slash to death his
own hogs and steers as John Brown
hacked and slashed TO death these men
and bows in Kansas he would be arrest
ed and imprisoned without delay. After
this Brown slew an unarmed, molten
siye farmer in Missouri. In his muir
derous raid at HarpeI's Ferry the first
man he slew was a negro engaged IN
the discharge of his duty at the
freight station there. For some weeks
before this raid he had been wan
dering about in Virginia, try
ing to enlist negroes in his little rebel
lion. In one place he protested to be q
geologist. In several places he professed
to be DR.. McLain-a specialist IN
/ hernia. He examined many slaves for
this disease, by consent Of their masters,
to whom he said that negroes were more
subject to it than any other class. In
! PRESBYTERIAN house he was a Presby'
/ terrain minister. he remained one day
and two nights and examined over forty
slaves. He next visited Baptist family,
and there protested to be a Baptist
minister. He had written out a plan OF
government for the South, which was
once in possession Of AmosA. Lawrence,
of Boston. This plan provided that
Brown should be military commander
in-chief III the negro government about
to be established.
To the above should be added the rob-
/ DlQO OF SIOTtb III hduSucJ bhO StSbiAub vi
horses, the invasion of Missouri, and the
stealing of about 81, 900 worth OF oxen
mules. wagons. harness, and such valua
BILE and portable property as he could
find. He was merciless and most IN
scrupulous jayhawker.
The above is a faint picture OF the
"noble John Brown" Much more Of
the same import could be given, but this
1 is enough, except for Anarchists wis
wish to become unrivalled experts IN
| crime.
After his midnight murders in Kansas
all the people about Ossawattomie as
sembled to express their indignation and
TO take measures to bring the " fiends
TO Justice. Here on most friendly terms
met the free-State and the slave-State
men. In the overshadowing gloom OF
such terrible crime all partisan issues
were forgotten. The underlying brother
hood of man asserted itself IN unity
against au enemy OF the human race.
But what enemy? John Brown, with
characteristic lying, denied that he was
present at this massacre or that he had
ANYTHING to do with it. No fact in his
tory is now better established than the
fact that he was father of the crime and
| the leader of the assassins.